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Festival Catalogue 2017All spheres of life are becoming measurable. Food, fitness, sleep, education, career – everything has to be calculable, everything is assessed. As we try to manage our lives with the help of technology, tools and tests, we allow ourselves to be watched and monitored. Data is collected, movements are followed, analyses are prepared. Our body is appropriated, our psyche gauged. But while surveillance is omnipresent and everything is under increasing control, many things in the world appear to have got out of control. New crisis zones are emerging around the globe, conflicts are intensifying, people are forced to flee their homes. World events are beginning to have a direct personal impact, isolationist movements are forming, disputes are becoming increasingly uninhibited. Pressure and challenges are causing discussions to escalate. Differences are being emphasised, boundaries drawn, common ground is being dismissed.

Festival Catalogue 2016Mexico is currently considered one of the world's most violent countries, especially in relation to the forcible disappearance of individuals. The fight against organised crime and the clashes between rival drug cartels constantly lead to new victims. Violence against women is also on the rise.The current work of the women directors from Mexico reflects these circumstances. In the various films and documentaries in this section, they address the problems of their country, concentrate on socio-political content and do not shrink from showing the violence and the oppression. Thus they explore their personal and cultural identities against the backdrop of urban and social realities. These themes and their emphases are crucial for the development of new narrative mechanisms and a hybrid film language – as well as for a renewal of feminist discourse in Latin American cinema.

Competitions: International Debut Feature Film Competition, National Competition for Women Directors of Photography, Choices Audience Award, Current International Film Productions: PANORAMA, Current lesbian, queer and transgender films: desired! film lust & queer

Published by IFFF Dortmund | Köln, 132 pages, German and English

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Festival Catalogue 2015The 2015 festival edition's focus is COMFORT. The desire for comfort or convenience is an understandable human urge, as is the intention to improve your own standard of living and that of your children. But as the gap between rich and poor continues to widen, just 1% of the world population will own 50% of the world's wealth by 2016. The degree to which natural resources are being exploited is similarly dramatic. So what does it all cost ultimately? And who pays for the affluence, the comfort and the good life enjoyed by people living in the better-off societies? Meanwhile, a sense of discomfort with this ongoing consumption is also growing. At the festival, then, the documentary films in particular will be exposing the everyday schizophrenia at length and addressing the existential questions of our time with clarity and compassion.

Festival Catalogue 2014The reasoning behind the 2014 country focus Turkey is not just the recent rise in the number of internationally successful films made by Turkish women directors taking a look at complex female characters and their everyday life. Also helpful as a guide to programme selection was the special relationship between Germany and Turkey. Cologne alone, for instance, has circa 60,000 inhabitants who either come from Turkey or have Turkish roots. What do we know specifically about our Turkish citizens, male and female? What do the younger generations feel and see when – having grown up in Germany - they return to the land of their ancestors?

Last but not least, the Country Focus also zooms in on the ongoing demonstrations and protest movements organised by Turkish citizens since the end of May 2013 against the authoritarian policies of the governing party in Turkey.

Competitions: International Debut Feature Film Competition, National Competition for Women Directors of Photography, Choices Audience Award, Current International Film Productions: PANORAMA, Current lesbian, queer and transgender films: desired! film lust & queer

Published by IFFF Dortmund | Köln, 150 pages, German and English

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Festival Catalogue 2013Excesson all channels. Everywhere you look, you are confronted with more and more dramatic facts and figures as to worldwide economic, ecological and social crises. The grossest-possible misuse of resources, an accelerated technological change in all industrial sectors and the all-round digitalisation of everyday life are creating new structures at an ever-faster pace. It is in this neoliberal climate that the notion of a maximally productive and flexible homo consumericus – and a high degree of self-optimisation – is propagated. A message that applies especially to women: obsessive navel gazing or unreflecting compulsive act?

Reason enough, then, to put Excess in the sights of our Focus section in 2013 – the section of the festival that looks at historical and contemporary films made by women in the filmic, aesthetic and cultural context as well as from the angle of social relevance.

Festival Catalogue 2012A year after the Arab Spring, the festival is pleased to organise an encounter with women film-makers based in North Africa and the Middle East whose films were made before the actual uprisings. The women's multi-layered and imaginative analyses of their societies from within offer an intriguing look at areas of conflict and levels of contradiction in the Arab world. What stories do the Arab film-makers have to tell and what are the female characters like?

Competitions: International Debut Feature Film Competition, National Competition for Women Directors of Photography, Choices Audience Award, Current International Film Productions: PANORAMA, Current lesbian, queer and transgender films: desired! film lust & queer

Published by IFFF Dortmund | Köln, 136 pages, German and English

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Festival Catalogue 2011Focus: NOW WHAT - Films about Getting out of HereNowadays, we are treated to a wealth of information about the current global crises — poverty, environmental destruction and all those finance markets supposedly teetering on the edge of the abyss. Yet the time for far-reaching political change is long overdue. After all, despite the dramatic consequences of a consumerist lifestyle, the goal of non-stop growth continues to be propagated. Natural resources are being wasted as though there were no tomorrow, while the international finance markets seem to operate free of any legal or ethical restraints. Is the public sector today ruled by economic interests and nothing else?

Festival Catalogue 2010Country Focus: Around the BalkansWith the collapse of socialism as we knew it and the formation of new political systems and countries, the last 20 years have witnessed a dramatic transformation for many states in South-East Europe. The aftermath of the traumatic war in the former Yugoslavia had a significant effect across Europe and it is hardly surprising that it should be now the theme of many films from that area. For film-making in the Balkans has become more than a matter of culture. It is now seen as a profound way of expressing a new identity and acting as a forum for reflection on political events.In this year's Country Focus, the Dortmund | Cologne International Women's Film Festival provided women film-makers from that part of the world with a broader platform and gave viewers a chance to come into dialogue with the directors themselves.

Festival Catalogue 2009 What is the exact price of homeland security, of free love, of the liberty to travel at will? How much freedom is possible in a world in which rights and dreams compete with one another? Films current and historical here give an idea of what people fought for and what people fought against in a specific epoch — and which notion of freedom was allowed to frame the discourse.

Competitions: 3. International Feature Film Competition for Women Directors donated by RWE Westfalen-Weser-Ems AG, 5. National Competition for Women Directors of Photography – for the first time in two separate categories: fiction feature film and documentary, trailer-Ruhr Audience Award

Published by IFFF Dortmund | Köln, 158 pages, German and English

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Festival Catalogue 2008 China is the featured country at this year’s festival. The country’s rapid development projects unusual pictures as it poses the persistent question as to whether the people can simply keep up with such transformation. What can be expected of people? How might they exist in circumstances which may be considered unsocial and inhospitable? How can they retain their dignity?

Competitions: International Debut Feature Film Competition, Choices Audience Award Current international productions: PANORAMA Current Lesbian and Transgender Films: QUEER LOOKS

Published by IFFF Dortmund | Köln, 127 pages, German and English

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Festival Catalogue 2007Fokus: MusicOnly a few women are involved in film scores; thus, they are rarely mentioned in the crew lists of popular films for cinema and TV. The Dortmund festival offered an opportunity to meet some of the most interesting women involved in the film score scene.

Published by IFFF Dortmund | Köln, 163 pages, German and English.

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Festival Catalogue 2006 Published by IFFF Dortmund | Köln, 144 pages, German and English

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Festival Catalogue 2005This Festival edition dealt with the broad theme of MONEY. Where does it come from? Who earns it and who doesn't? And who foots the bill in both a real and metaphoric sense?

Competitions: 1st International Feature Film Award for Women Directors and 3rd femme totale Camera Award by e-m-s new media AG. 100 films made by women - from all over the world.

Published by femme totale, 176 pages, in German and English

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Festival Catalogue Feminale 2004Prices on application.

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Festival Catalogue 2003This Festival edition dealt with the broad theme of origins and background - that sense of belonging to people and places. People and places one holds on to or loses or regains as the case may be. How do women filmmakers tackle the subjects of home, mobility, family ties and migration?

Published by femme totale, 191 pages, in German and English

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Festival Catalogue Feminale 2002Prices on application.

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Festival Catalogue 2001The 2001 Festival edition traced historic on-screen osculation in a number of different programmes. Kissproof are those films that tell of the love of one's life, of fulfilment, of heartbreak. Whether the story is long or short, the question "Why?" will always be answered in different and new ways.

Published by femme totale, 175 pages, in German and English

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Festival Catalogue Feminale 2000Prices on application.

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Festival Catalogue 1999The Festival followed stories written by life itself - away from all those straight-arrow curriculum vitae and model biographies. The focus is on dropping out and starting over. Life beyond convention. Events that give an unexpected twist to life.

Published by femme totale, 168 pages, in german and English

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Feminale Festival Catalogues 1986 to 1998Prices on application.

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Festival Catalogue 1997The strange pleasure that audience gets when watching thrillers, action movies, horror flicks and adventure films was the starting point of this festival.

Published by femme totale, 160 pages, in German and English

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Festival Catalogue 1995In the year of the cinema's 100th anniversary, the festival took a closer look at those areas that, perhaps, have previously perceived with only peripheral vision by filmgoers: costume design, music, camerawork, scenery and set design. In its special film "A Scandulous State ogf Affairs", femme totale took a look at some of those wonderfully scandalous women on screen.

Published by femme totale, 117 pages, in German and English.

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Festival Catalogue 1993The Subversive Power of LaughterIn 1993 the Festival showcased the many varied ways in which humour is conveyed in cultural and artistic products made by women. Particular focus was on those film products that resort to subtle and subversive forms of wit, parody and satire in a wide-ranging mix of genre, format, medium, style ans aesthetic expression.

Festival Cataloge 1991Machine WreckersAn overall look at the topic of women and new technologies.Published by femme totale, 152 pages

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Regisseurinnen Guide (Women Film Director's Guide)Overview of the female film directors working in the film and TV sector in Germany. In addition to the filmographies, the Guide also includes background information as to the director's training, CV's, awards they may have won and their contact details.